Recent Projects on Neurotrauma in Japan

Abstract

There are several major projects on neurotrauma in Japan. They include development of Management Guidelines for Severe Traumatic Brain injury (TBI) and Japan Neurotraum Data Bank (JNTDB) by the Japan Society of Neurotraumatology and the Project to establish the Medico-Social Support System for Cognitive and Behavioral Dysfuntion after TBI by the Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. The first management Guidelines was published in 2000 based on the result of the Japanes literature review and committee consensus. The revision of the Guidelines is now ongoing and the new version will be published in 2006. The first report on the result of JNTDB was published in 2002 and the second report based on the data with 1002 patients will be released in 2006. The third project reported preliminarey proposal of diagnostic criteria, neuropsychological rehabilitation and social supporting system in 2004 and the final report will be published in 2005. The overview of these projects and the perspectives are reported.